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June 11, 2018
Podcast: Petard, Part 04 — CONCLUSION
Here’s the fourth and final part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one, part two, part three), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and dedicated to, Aaron Swartz — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem.
May 30, 2018
Podcast: Petard, Part 03
Here’s the third part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one, part two), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and dedicated to, Aaron Swartz — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem.
May 28, 2018
Talking Walkaway, anarchism, social justice and revolution with The Final Straw Radio
I recorded a great interview (MP3) about my novel Walkaway and how it fits into radical politics; a free, fair and open internet; the Nym Wars, parenting, and insurgency.
May 25, 2018
Talking the writers’ life with the Australia Broadcasting Company’s Green Room show
Earlier this spring, while I was on my Australia/NZ tour, I sat down with Australian author Nick Earls for his Green Room show, (MP3) to gossip, complain, and daydream about the writer’s life.
May 22, 2018
Where to find me at Phoenix Comics Fest this week
I’m heading to Phoenix Comics Fest tomorrow (going straight to the airport from my daughter’s elementary school graduation) (!), and I’ve got a busy schedule so I thought I’d produce a comprehensive list of the places you can find me in Phoenix:
Wednesday, May 23: Elevenageddon at Poisoned Pen books, 4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, 7-8PM (“A Multi-Author Sci-Fi Event”)
Thursday, May 24:
Transhumans and Transhumanism in Fiction, North 126AB, with Emily Devenport and Sylvain Neu...
The paperback of Walkaway is out today, along with reissues of all my adult novels in matching covers!
Today marks the release of the paperback of Walkaway, along with reissues of my five other adult novels, all in matching covers designed by the incredible Will Stahle (and if ebooks are your thing, check out my fair-trade ebook store, where you can get all my audiobooks and ebooks sold on the same terms as physical editions, with no DRM and no license agreements!).
May 17, 2018
Talking education and technology with the Future Trends Forum
“Science fiction writer and cyberactivist Cory Doctorow joined the Future Trends Forum to explore possibilities for technology and education.”
May 14, 2018
Podcast: Petard, Part 02
Here’s the second part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and dedicated to, Aaron Swartz — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem.
May 9, 2018
Talking privacy and GDPR with Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters interviewed me for their new series on data privacy and the EU General Data Protection Regulation; here’s the audio!
What if you just said when you breach, the damages that you owe to the people whose data you breached cannot be limited to the immediate cognizable consequences of that one breach but instead has to take recognition of the fact that breaches are cumulative? That the data that you release might be merged with some other set that was previously released either...
May 7, 2018
Donald Trump is a pathogen evolved to thrive in an attention-maximization ecosystem
My latest Locus column is The Engagement-Maximization Presidency, and it proposes a theory to explain the political phenomenon of Donald Trump: we live in a world in which communications platforms amplify anything that gets “engagement” and provides feedback on just how much your message has been amplified so you can tune and re-tune for maximum amplification.
Peter Watts’s 2002 novel Maelstrom illustrates a beautiful, terrifying example of this, in which a mindless, self-modifying compute...
